I've got a project directory that's become a bit of a mess, and I'm trying to tidy it up into a structure something like this:
/data
/raw
/cleaning_scripts
/analysis
...
Some of the raw data is kept in a directory outside the project directory, and I'd like to keep my project neat and tidy by putting a link to the directory containing the external data in the /raw directory. But R doesn't let me do something like
read.csv("data/raw/my_link/my_data.csv")
Is there a way to get around this, ideally one that won't involve jumping through so many hoops that my collaborators get confused? Or a better practice for situating the data that would obviate the need to read the link the way I am?
This is on a windows machine, by the way, and the project folder is being shared through a remote git repo.
